§ 62. Mr. W. R. Williamsasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is proposed to make any cuts in university grants; and whether he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Glenvil HallI have seen these reports. No reductions have been made, and none are contemplated, in the rising scale of grants announced by my right hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton) on the 10th March, 1947. The distribution of grant to individual universities is a matter for the University Grants Committee, but I have in this case ascertained the grounds on which the Committee arrived at the amounts allocated to Oxford University and in my view the treatment given to the University has not been other than generous.